Approved Ranged Weapon Gravehammer Hypervelocity Array Mk. I

[Darth Prazutis]

• Intent: To create a limited production, Sith engineered hypervelocity weapon system that merges advanced coil acceleration technology with dark side alchemy and ritual engineering, the ultimate terror weapon of the Kainate.
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• Manufacturer:
  
  • Malsheem Hypernautics and Manufacturing
• Affiliation:
  
  • The Kainate
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model: Gravehammer Hypervelocity Array Mk. I
• Modularity: No
• Production: Limited
• Material:
  • Bloodsteel (Coil Housings)
  • Crucivane (Internal Frame)
  • Pyroclast Alloy (Thermal Shielding)
  • Hemophage Conductor Web (Energy Transfer)
  • Soul-Latch Capacitor Cells (Ritual Charge Storage)

• Classification: Hypervelocity Cannon
• Size: Very Large
• Weight: Very Heavy
• Ammunition Type:
  
  • Runic Ultrachrome Electroplated Tungsten Alloy Slugs with Dark Side Energy Sheath ("Soulshots")
• Ammunition Capacity: Small
• Effective Range: Battlefield
• Rate of Fire: Low
• Damage Output: Very High
• Recoil: Very High

• Soul-Latch Capacitors: Ritualized capacitor banks that store energy through alchemical feedback. They are charged with both mechanical and sacrificial power, releasing it in coherent bursts that supercharge slug velocity and runic ignition on impact.
• Runic Impact Etchings: Each soulshot slug carries complex alchemical runes that bloom upon impact, corrupting local systems, degrading electronics, and temporarily inverting repair protocols, forcing manual recovery.
• Scream-Charge Pulse: A secondary psychic detonation accompanies each strike, disrupting nearby neural interfaces, disorienting enemy crews, and inducing visceral dread. While not lethal, its shock effect is devastating in precision engagements.
• Remnant Whisper Nodes: Specialized sensors that capture telemetry and emotional resonance from every impact, transmitting the data to the Shadow Mind. The reflections of dying thought feed targeting algorithms, creating predictive efficiency at horrific cost.
• Hemophage Energy Web: A power transfer network that metabolizes conventional energy or sacrificial life essence to sustain operational readiness, extending field duration without reactor dependence.
• Blood-Oath Locking: Genetic, ritual, and cognitive encryption prevent unauthorized activation. Attempts to bypass this attestation protocol result in catastrophic feedback and neural corruption.
• Abyssal Salvo Protocol: A forbidden firing mode that consumes the entire Soul-Latch charge to unleash a singular, apocalyptic strike capable of inflicting structural and dark damage. It leaves a psychic scar visible in the Force and renders the weapon inert for a prolonged period of time.

• Shieldbreaker: The Gravehammer's hypervelocity slugs pierce layered shields and batter heavy armor, reducing even reinforced defenses to fragments through sheer kinetic overpressure.
• Runic Corruption: Impact runes bloom into electromagnetic and algorithmic corruption, delaying automated defenses and ship-wide recovery.
• Psychic Suppression: The Scream-Charge pulse disorients and slows nearby personnel, creating windows of chaos in otherwise disciplined fleets.
• Ritual Efficiency: Soul-Latch and Hemophage systems reclaim charge from battlefield energy, enabling sustained firing in ritual theaters.
• Tactical Intelligence: Remnant Whisper data improves future accuracy, allowing successive strikes to exploit previously weakened zones.

• Force Nullification: The Gravehammer's dark-resonant stabilizers and guidance arrays are suppressed in Force Nullification; the weapon reverts to a reduced-performance kinetic mode, suffers some accuracy/penetration loss, and will trigger automatic safety throttles to avoid destructive feedback.
• Ritual Dependency: Must undergo regular re-tempering and feed cycles; without ritual maintenance, it degrades rapidly.
• Hemophage Instability: Excessive life-energy feeding can induce corruption feedback, damaging the weapon or killing its own crew.

The Gravehammer Hypervelocity Array Mk. I stands as the Kainate's answer to the modern hypervelocity cannons, a weapon reborn through the alchemical crucible of the Dark Side. Forged in the heart of Malsheem's forge-cathedrals, its creation is a process equal parts engineering and ritual. The foundation of each weapon begins as a standard coil accelerator, but the Sith refuse to let mere physics define their craft.

Every coil housing is carved from Bloodsteel, its surface engraved with runic sutures that pulse when charged. Crucivane framing anchors the array in a lattice of shadow-tempered metal, and within its core dwell the Soul-Latch capacitors, vessels of restrained fury, humming with power drawn not only from reactors but from ritual sacrifice and psychic resonance.

When activated, the weapon's coils awaken with a sound like an entire battlefield inhaling. The Hemophage conductor web drinks greedily from both energy grids and living essence alike, transmuting heat, pain, and death into current. A runic soulshot slug is chambered, dense, spiraled, and etched with wards that only the Shadow Mind can decipher. Upon discharge, the coils ignite in black light, propelling the slug to speeds so great that it blurs into unreality. Where it strikes, the universe itself seems to recoil: shields buckle, armor ruptures, and the runes burst outward in a coronal bloom that corrupts sensors, inverts repair protocols, and fractures morale.

Yet the Gravehammer's power transcends the physical. Each impact unleashes the Scream-Charge, a resonant psychic concussion that thrums through every living being within its radius. Neural implants flicker, coordination falters, and entire bridges fall silent under the weight of an invisible scream. Crews describe it not as a sound but as an absence, a pressure that forces the mind to listen for something it cannot name. Even after the weapon's fire has ceased, the echo of terror lingers, burrowed into the consciousness of those who survived.

The weapon's maintenance is as much sacrament as service. Soul-Latch cells must be re-attuned with precise ritual heat cycles to prevent energy collapse, while the Remnant Whisper nodes require purging to stop the echoes of dying thought from infecting ship systems. Failure to observe these rites results in corruption, not merely of machinery, but of minds. The rare Abyssal Salvo Protocol, channels the total charge of the array into a single round: a weaponized apocalypse that gouges the world and leaves behind a dark scar visible in the Force.

For all its risks, the Gravehammer remains the purest expression of Kainate warfare, dominance through fear, precision through agony, victory through annihilation. To witness its fire is to behold an act of dread divinity: the moment when the will of the Sith manifests as absolute, unanswerable ruin.

 

[Krass Wyms]

Darth Prazutis

This be crazy dude... like way out there cray cray

I need to step up my game

APproved with standard warnings about abuse and the ones being attacked calling the damage. Enjoy